What are the challenges that community psychologists experience?
- Mental healchare is poorly funded and under-resourced in relation to other health disciplines
- Neuropsychaitric disorder rank almost the highest challenges to South africa
3.mental health resources are unevenly distributed across the provinces with limpopo and Eastern cape suffer the most severe lack of resources.
- Mental heal services continue to rely heavily on psychiatric hospitals, owing to the lack of funding and resources in outlying clinics
- Posts are not filled leading to critical stuffing issues and it is reported that in some hospitals beds are missing
What are the types of evidence based interventions
- Cognitive behavior therapy
- Assertive community treatment
- Interpersonal psycho therapy
- Mindfulness based therapy
- Pyschodynamic therapy
- Dialectic behavior therapy
- Psycho education
What is cognitive based therapy?
1.focuses on changing unhelpful or negative thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and behavior
What is assertive community treatment
Focuses on community outreach to provide support for people with severe mental illnesses who are most at risk of psychiatric crisis, hospitalization and criminal activity
It involves consistent, caring person centered relationships that have a positive effect on quality of life
What is psychotherapy?
- Is a short structured approach that focuses on resolving interpersonal problems
What is mindfulness based therapy?
- Focuses on awareness of thoughts, feelings and behavior and avoidance of relating to them
What is pyschodynamic therapy?
In depth form of talk therapy focusing on the patient and the external world
What is dialectic behavior therapy
Provides skillsets to manage, tolerate and regulate painful emotions and communicate better with others
What is psycho education
Provides information to people seeking mental health services
